to desaturate
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- verb
- /ˌdiːˈsætʃʊreɪt/
- Specialized
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desaturar
- This site has desaturated the plant and its surroundings to better highlight the unusual pools or charring around the building.
- desaturate the color
Examples
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"This app allows me to desaturate images, while tweaking the contrast and sharpening for a nice, contrasty, and slightly noisy black and white finish," she says.
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So I desaturated the image some to create a different mood.
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OK, so there are four ways to desaturate a color.
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There are four different ways to desaturate a color.
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As for the picture, I'm thinking I would desaturate the blue sky as this kind of distracts too much from the great tones below.
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The rose color looks kind of fake to me, but I did not do anything to that; I just desaturated all the yellows and oranges.
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Desaturating after your other adjustments can help it retain realism.
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A less-than-perfect workaround for this problem is to desaturate the color in specific areas on an image where fringing is apparent.
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That way you're not actually desaturating the entire image; you're just removing the saturation of certain parts of your image.
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To create a softer look, I decided to desaturate the bright colors in the image.
Synonyms
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3.2
To make something lighter in color, often using chemicals or sunlight
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4.1
To become faded or stained
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4.0
Make a color on clothes become lighter when you clean them
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3.8
Make clothes and similar things much lighter in color, usually by sunlight or chemicals
To take the color out of something like fabric or a photograph
To make something lose its color
To make something lose its color or become lighter
To make something lose its color or become lighter
To remove unwanted color from a lens so images have no colored edges
Antonyms
How Saturated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Desaturate comes from the prefix de- meaning 'remove' and saturate meaning 'fill full', the same root you see in the word 'saturation'. So to desaturate an image is to take away the 'fullness' of color, leaving it pale or grey.